Samsung Shareholder Activist
Ruffles Feathers in South Korea

HONG KONG -- The annual shareholders meeting of Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea is still weeks away, but sparks have already started to fly.

Jang Ha Sung, a prominent shareholder activist in Korea, was in Hong Kong and Singapore last week, urging institutional investors to approve a series of changes to Samsung Electronic's bylaws. But the trip has apparently caught the ire of Korea's leading semiconductor manufacturer, which...